@@giloizowneu6908 100% - I used to be in telephone sales so my "telephone" voice is super animated and engaging. But I was shocked how different it looks watching them from afar "perform" for the camera.
That's interesting. I'm on the spectrum, and I've always thought RU-vidrs act strangely and artificially on camera. My guess is you got to see the contrast of them being normal humans one second, then when the camera is rolling the next second you notice the change.
This is lovely to watch. I'm always happy to see extraordinary people to cooperate. Also at 0:50 i literally thought "He is gonna trash compact them" in millisecond before Adam said it.
I didn't ever think of Norm as being behind the camera with Adam. It's almost revelatory. Also, surreal seeing Brady become Keith with that voting machine, as he presents and explains it to Adam! Also-also, the microphones really do rid the audio of a potentially heavy echo (the opposite revealed when in the lobby around 5:30).
So you WERE in the room when Prof Poliakoff's name was said and Adam didn't recognise it, I hope you mentioned the connection after he finished filming!
Fun to see the *Principia* physically near *On the Origin of Species.* There's a crucial link between these two books, the most important scientific works ever. Darwin made reference to Newton in a couple of places in the *Origin,* invoking his secondary laws worldview. One is especially noteworthy by its placement in the grand summing up of the extent and impact of his theory. The final poetic sentence references gravity. "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." Darwin didn't mention Newton by name but his target audience of natural philosophers would get the reference right away. Newton revolutionized science by more than theory and rational mathematics. He established the concept of the physical world operating under secondary laws that were set up by the Creator at the beginning and then left to run. This was a leap beyond the conventional view in the Western world that God’s hand was directly involved at every moment in, say, the motion of the planets. The scientific and then the wider world came to adopt this worldview. Darwin knew people would resist removing the Creator from the direct creation of species and knew casting natural selection as another form of secondary laws would open the path toward acceptance of the theory, or at least show people it shouldn’t be simply dismissed. Darwin almost included a reference to the other revolution of secondary laws, the one in geology that took place about when he was born. James Hutton introduced what came to be called uniformitarianism. The theory came to fruition during the 1830s under Charles Lyell - in fact, reading Lyell’s book was one of Darwin’s inspirations. The establishment of “deep time” in the worldview of science gave Darwin another rock to stand on when selling his natural selection theory. He wrote versions of this paragraph in 1842 and 1844. The 1844 reads “There is a simple grandeur in this view of life, with its powers of assimilation & of reproduction, having been originally breathed into matter under a few forms; & that, whilst this planet has gone cycling onwards according to the fixed laws of gravity & land & water have gone on replacing each other,- that from so simple an origin, through this process of gradual selection of infinitesimal varieties, endless forms most beautiful & most wonderful have been evolved.” He struck out the words after & land & water: “form & these [illegible] actions have gone on ‹have continued in endless changes› replacing each other…” All of this was a reference to the recent new geological worldview, i.e. secondary laws. The concept of secondary laws that Isaac Newton brought to the world was crucial to Darwin conceiving the theory of natural selection and to the scientific world considering it.
The Standard Yard is only a true yard at a particular temperature which is engraved on the bar. Since it will not always be that exact temp, it makes sense that a table of length corrections would be available for other temps.
I'd like to apologise for my comment about Keith on the last video- I don't know why it was removed, but my intent was to be funny and not to offend. I imagine I must have worded it badly and it was misconstrued. So again, my heartfelt apologies.
